I had forgotten all about this tale...until in a drunken stupor it came to the forefront of my mind!
Many moons ago,I used to be a Deputy Manager for the Co-op..fun days!!
Myself and my manager would do alternate Saturday morning-evening shifts. This mean't that one of us would start at 7am and finish at 2pm the other would start at 2pm and finish at 9.30pm etc...
It was Valentines night on the Friday and I was on a late on the Saturday. Went for a meal, then onto a club and stopped over at my girlfriend's house Friday night. Woke up Saturday morning, had a lie in etc...because I didn't need to be in work until 2pm. Never thought anything about it. Drove home to my house at mid day to find my mother all in a panic..The Police had been to the house, asking where I was and had searched through my wardrobe etc.. My mother in her wisdom had said she wasn't sure where I had been all night but that she hadn't seen me since Friday morning!! Cheers mum!! You have to remember this was in the days before mobile phones!
Anyway, rang work to find out that in the morning a masked man had put a gun to my bosses head and made him empty the safe of money etc..He didn't really say much but said that the police wanted a quicik chat with me when I came to work. Ok, he was being a little odd..I just thought he was probably shook up. Went to work, been there about 10 mins when the police turned up. They asked me to go to the office as they wanted a quick chat... Here is where it gets funny.. I can honestly say that it was like something you see on the TV..bare in mind I was hungover.. Cop1...Hi how are you? Cop 2 just grunting Cop1 Where were you this morning? Cop2 You fucking did it didn't ya!!! literally 2 inches from the side of my face!! I couldn't actually take this in...They were actually accusing me of robbing my own shop!! This went on for what seemed ages..GOOD COP - BAD COP -GOOD COP-BAD COP ... In the end I started getting a bit pissed off and started being sarcastic with bad cop...not a good move..He then wanted to look in my car..Obviously to find my Baliclava..for some crazy reason I had a batman t-shirt in there??? Anyway, I obviously hadn't done it but I then went to have a chat with my boss to ask him what was going on? He then explained how they had try to convince him it was me..the right height, I would know he was on his own etc...the reason he knew it wasn't me... The knobhead who did it only took the bags of money from the safe...about 3 grand. The 25k on the desk in metal safe tubes he didn't touch..My boss told the police that if it had been me I would have known that the money was in the tubes and taken the lot!!!! cheers boss!!! Innocent by the fact I didn't steal all the money!!!
The whole incident really pissed me off and I realised I had to get another career sorted as soon as possible. However, it wasn't until later that night in the pub that the whole event sunk in, it could have been me with a gun put to my head!!! No job is worth that... As for the police..mmm?
Now I lecture for a living... love it!!! ;-Dx
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